Backward, no. Different, yes. Some call it the best of both worlds - french inherited civil law is very precise, allowing clear and fair resolution of conflicts.
Quebec law is unique in Canada because Quebec is the only province in Canada to have a juridical legal system (pertaining to the administration of justice) under which civil matters are regulated by French-heritage civil law. Public law, criminal law and other federal law operate according to Canadian common law.
One should also take into account the useful life of the products they manufacture, with sealed-in batteries and throw-away design, along with their own marketing effort to out-fashion their own devices after only two years.
Using terajoules of the cleanest energy to produce stuff that will end up in the trash faster than you can say "planned obsolescence" is still waste.
I'll applaud when they reverse the flow and encourage people to keep their computers longer through cheap support plans and openness.
Isn't that what "LIVE FREE OR DIE" is about? We keep them as oversea slaves to fullfil our material desires, trampling our own principles of human integrity. A though choice, yes, but possibly one that would pay off in the long term.
Luke, Han, Lea, Gweedo, hell, they can bring back the goddamn Ewoks if they want, as long they keep George Lucas himself out of the crew, they'll be fine.
When Jobs died, he was compared to Edison and Henry Ford and to Disney
These guys became popular because they provided something GOOD AND CHEAP to the masses - light, cars, culture. They weren't elitists, not did they try to create new churches (well maybe Disney). Jobs legacy will not endure as well as Gates, for he was never one to compromise in order to touch everybody. He created his own bubble and died within it. Had he had the clout to push his excellent design antics along with a all-american bargain price, then maybe he would have changed the world in a durable fashion. He just changed computer's GUIs.
I've yet to adopt either platform (iPhone / Android), because both force me into a subscription model that sees me like I was a bovine to exploit. What I want is a small, open, mobile computer with enhanced wireless communication that empowers me more than it enslaves me. FirefoxOS and open WebOS would be quite welcome on that front, if they could get through the north american carrier's evil marketing departments.
Installed industrial base and public perception are the main culprits, I guess.
The production, distribution and consumption chain is geared towards gasoline, making diesel a less safe option as you can't be sure you'll be able to refill at any station.
North Americans are also used to equate V6 and V8 with power (although this is changing with the latest small turbo-4s such as EcoBoost), where the car diesel engines are most often geared for economy rather than performance (unless you look at BMW *35d series).
Sounds like a job for OpenCL. A GPU cluster would be much more scalable than using expensive Xeons. Which also makes this article sound like an add for Intel CPUs.
I guess he's saying that with NoSQL the relations are done at application level rather than database level. You still have the equivalent of schema and queries, but they are managed by the code, not the DB engine.
Corporations are NOT people. Corporations are "moral persons", who employ, are owned and sell stuff to people with the intent to make profit. The actual needs and desires of a corporation are quite often not in the best interest of people.
This guy was probably weak and lacked the capacity to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
His cowardness would be more excusable if he had not CREATED THIS CRISIS all by himself, by being an incompetent douchebag showoff captain in the first place.
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Backward, no. Different, yes. Some call it the best of both worlds - french inherited civil law is very precise, allowing clear and fair resolution of conflicts.
Quebec law is unique in Canada because Quebec is the only province in Canada to have a juridical legal system (pertaining to the administration of justice) under which civil matters are regulated by French-heritage civil law. Public law, criminal law and other federal law operate according to Canadian common law.
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Plus, in the summer you have to evacuate that extra heat with air conditioning, which adds it's fair share of kw.
Funny, last time I bought an Nvidia (a 8600GT with the infamous G86 chip) card it died within months because of internal solder thermal failure.
One should also take into account the useful life of the products they manufacture, with sealed-in batteries and throw-away design, along with their own marketing effort to out-fashion their own devices after only two years.
Using terajoules of the cleanest energy to produce stuff that will end up in the trash faster than you can say "planned obsolescence" is still waste.
I'll applaud when they reverse the flow and encourage people to keep their computers longer through cheap support plans and openness.
Isn't that what "LIVE FREE OR DIE" is about? We keep them as oversea slaves to fullfil our material desires, trampling our own principles of human integrity. A though choice, yes, but possibly one that would pay off in the long term.
Luke, Han, Lea, Gweedo, hell, they can bring back the goddamn Ewoks if they want, as long they keep George Lucas himself out of the crew, they'll be fine.
I haven't healed from Howard the Duck yet.
That's LOLCODE you insignificant cod.
a lot of potential impact for surveillance
Nothing that a shotgun can't fix. Yet.
Sorry Canuck, no hockey, no trades.
What is being monetized when publishing news is reputation. Anybody can report "facts" but will you trust them?
"You don't threaten a democratically elected government."
Quite right. They are threatening the french newspaper corporations, not the government. Maybe some of these companies are state-owned. Tough shit.
Or how they collaborated with Audi? The Mazda 3, Focus, and S40 shared the same platform.
You mean Volvo. Germans don't share the good stuff. Only Swedes do that.
When Jobs died, he was compared to Edison and Henry Ford and to Disney
These guys became popular because they provided something GOOD AND CHEAP to the masses - light, cars, culture. They weren't elitists, not did they try to create new churches (well maybe Disney). Jobs legacy will not endure as well as Gates, for he was never one to compromise in order to touch everybody. He created his own bubble and died within it. Had he had the clout to push his excellent design antics along with a all-american bargain price, then maybe he would have changed the world in a durable fashion. He just changed computer's GUIs.
I've yet to adopt either platform (iPhone / Android), because both force me into a subscription model that sees me like I was a bovine to exploit. What I want is a small, open, mobile computer with enhanced wireless communication that empowers me more than it enslaves me. FirefoxOS and open WebOS would be quite welcome on that front, if they could get through the north american carrier's evil marketing departments.
Boo-hoo. Here, take these FULLY OPENED woodblocks on a skewer. They don't need drivers and you can do math-stuff with'em by moving the blocks around.
Installed industrial base and public perception are the main culprits, I guess.
The production, distribution and consumption chain is geared towards gasoline, making diesel a less safe option as you can't be sure you'll be able to refill at any station.
North Americans are also used to equate V6 and V8 with power (although this is changing with the latest small turbo-4s such as EcoBoost), where the car diesel engines are most often geared for economy rather than performance (unless you look at BMW *35d series).
How about chip fabbing? I'm sure the likes of Intel and TSMC are looking at this closely.
The question remains : who is Bill Banning?
I'd start by patenting sideways fucking.
Sounds like a job for OpenCL. A GPU cluster would be much more scalable than using expensive Xeons. Which also makes this article sound like an add for Intel CPUs.
I guess he's saying that with NoSQL the relations are done at application level rather than database level. You still have the equivalent of schema and queries, but they are managed by the code, not the DB engine.
Corporations are NOT people. Corporations are "moral persons", who employ, are owned and sell stuff to people with the intent to make profit. The actual needs and desires of a corporation are quite often not in the best interest of people.
This guy was probably weak and lacked the capacity to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
His cowardness would be more excusable if he had not CREATED THIS CRISIS all by himself, by being an incompetent douchebag showoff captain in the first place.
And corporate customers too.
And to think, it was not too long ago that a Blackberry was "the phone to own".
Now it's the phone to get 0wned!